Shirt



L. COHEN.

(No Model.)

SHIRT.

Patented Apr.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS COHEN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,959, dated April 8, 1890.

Application filed January 29, 1890- Scrial No. 338,440- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS COHEN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a'new and useful Improvement in Shirts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improved shirts, in which the collar-button or stud hole is formed in a separate piece of material distinct from the shirt itself, but operating in combination with the bosom and collar-band of the shirt.

The object of my improvement is to save the wear and tear of the collar-band of a shirt by means of an attached strip of material containing button or stud holes. tain this object by an attachment to the inside of the bosom of the shirt, such attachment being passed through a slot or opening left between the collar-band and the bosom of the shirt and being provided with a row of button or stud holes capable of having the worn-out one cut off and a new one substituted without damage or alteration of the shirt-bosom or collar-band by ripping the attachment where it is tacked to the inside of the shirt-bosom and pushing it up the slot or opening, so as to use the new button or stud hole in place of the worn one.

I illustrate my invention by the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a front view of the shirt-bosom, showing the attachment or strip B passed through the slot or opening 0 where the bosom of the shirt and collar-band are sewed together, as the same would be in actual use, ready for inserting the stud and fastening the collar. Fig. 2 shows the back view of the bosom of the shirt with the strip or buttonhole attachment B as it would be in actual use. Fig. 3 is the back perspective view of the bosom of the shirt, showing the strip or attachment B pulled from the slot or opening a.

A is the bosom of the shirt; B, the strip or attachment which is passed between the collar-band and the bosom of the shirt through the slot or opening 0, containing button or stud holes, part tacked to the lining of the bosom of the shirt and the other part turned up through the slot or opening when the buttonhole for the shirt-collar stud is in place for use, as in Fig. 1; O, the collar-band; c, the slot or opening between the collar-band and bosom; b, the button or stud holes in the strip or attachment; e, the stitching where the strip or attachment is tacked to the shirtbosom on the inside, and D the stitching to form the edge of the strip or attachment when a button or stud hole has been out off to prevent raveling.

The manner of applying or using my improvement is to rip the tacking cut ofi the worn button or stud hole at the stitching D, pass the strip or attachment B through the slot or opening 0, and fold it, as shown in Fig. 3, till the new button or stud hole is, as shown in Fig. 1, ready for inserting a collar-stud. This renewing of the stud-hole can be continued as long as there remains a stud-hole in the strip or attachment B.

The advantage of this improvement is the great saving in the wear of the collar-band, there being no hole therein, as in the shirts as at present made, the ordinary collar-button or stud hole always wearing out before the shirt is at all worn by reason of the strain on the collar-button hole when the collar is buttoned, and also in the washing and ironing.

IVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a shirt, the combination, with the shirtfront and neckband, having an opening between said front and band, of a separate strip of material provided with a series of button or stud holes passed through said opening and secured to the back of the shirt-front, whereby an entirely new button or stud hole as often as needful may be substituted for a worn-out one, and substantially as shown and described in the drawings and specification.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 27th day of J anuary, 1890.

LOUIS COHEN. Witnesses:

MoRRIs SCHLESINGER, HERRMANN C. HUELLE. 

